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Mid-year resolutions, reading:
- spend more time reading The New Yorker, rather than just the cartoons and the crossword puzzle;
- spend even more time reading The Atlantic (that's easy)
- re-subscribe to The New York Review of Books (done; that was easy)
- discontinue subscription to Science; more woke than I care for in a science magazine; not enough science.
Mid-year resolutions, blogging:
- less on oil, more on investing (easy)
- try to maintain same level of reporting on the Bakken (hard)
College debt forgiveness: link here.
- update here, nothing new.
- apply the law; money should not be an issue.
- if the "new" law passed by Congress gave Biden the authority, Biden wins;
- if the law passed by Congress was unconstitutional --- whoa, Nellie -- or Katie -- bar the doors!
- I have no dog in this fight. If SCOTUS says "okay," it opens the door to a lot of presidential mischief
- and that's fine, if you like presidential mischief.
MLB: games are too long; the game is dying.
- really, really smart people decided to speed up the game
- really, really smart people: a clock on the pitcher
- stupid
- every pitch becomes controversial; every fan carrying a stopwatch
- better solution
- regular season games:
- seven innings
- "seventh-inning stretch" during fifth inning
- exception: classic contests (e.g., Mets vs Yankees, Yankees vs Boston): nine innings
- if the game is still too long: five innings
- the TKO-5-run rule: game called if any team goes ahead by five runs
- regular season: no extra innings; winner is the team that scored last
- two-pitchers max
- post-season: nine innings
- three-pitchers max
- TKO-5-run rule remains in effect
- this is not rocket-science.
More baseball:
- infield shift banned as of 2023;
- great call;
- link here.
More baseball:
- physical size of bases (not home plate) has been increased;
- to encourage base running;
- great call;
- link here.
More baseball:
- now San Diego Padres, was Boston Red Sox shortstop
- Xander Bogaerts
- 11-year, $280 million contract signed this past winter.
Southern surge:
- haven't heard a thing about this "problem" in months.
- a busload or two to sanctuary cities is not a solution.
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